How To Install the BIND DNS Server on CentOS 6

In my post, I demonstrate how to install and configure the BIND DNS server. I execute the following commands as the root account.

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To prepare package for BIND DNS server.

yum update -y
yum install bind bind-utils -y
yum -y install perl perl-core wget openssh-clients openssh-server unzip nmap sysstat rsync telnet ntp
ntpdate asia.pool.ntp.org
service ntpd start
chkconfig ntpd on

To configure the static IP address:

# vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

The content is as follows:

DEVICE=eth1
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.131.10
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.131.2
DNS=192.168.131.10
DNS1=8.8.8.8
DNS2=8.8.4.4
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no

To configure hosts file.

vim /etc/hosts

The output as bellow

192.168.131.10 ns1.huuphan.local ns1
192.168.131.11 ldap.huuphan.local ldap
192.168.131.12 mta.huuphan.local mta
192.168.131.13 mailbox.huuphan.local mailbox

To configure resolv.conf

vim /etc/resolv.conf

The output as bellow

; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search huuphan.local
nameserver 192.168.131.10
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

To configure network file

#vim /etc/sysconfig/network

The output as bellow

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=ns1

To configure BIND DNS server

To Create Forward Zone File

vim /var/named/huuphan.local.zone

The output as bellow

;
; BIND data file for local loopback interface
;
$TTL    604800
@       IN      SOA     ns1.huuphan.local. admin.huuphan.local. (
3         ; Serial
604800         ; Refresh
86400         ; Retry
2419200         ; Expire
604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
;
; name servers - NS records
@       IN      NS      ns1.huuphan.local.
@               MX              10   mail.huuphan.local.
; name servers - A records
ns1                 IN A                 192.168.131.10
ldap     IN      A       192.168.131.11
mta     IN      A       192.168.131.12
mailbox     IN      A       192.168.131.13

To Create Reverse Zone File

vim /var/named/131.168.192.rev

The output as bellow

;
; BIND reverse data file for local loopback interface
;
$TTL    604800
@       IN      SOA     ns1.huuphan.local. admin.huuphan.local. (
1         ; Serial
604800         ; Refresh
86400         ; Retry
2419200         ; Expire
604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
;
; name servers
@       IN      NS      ns1.huuphan.local.
; PTR Records
11     IN      PTR     ldap.huuphan.local.
12     IN      PTR     mta.huuphan.local.
13     IN      PTR     mailbox.huuphan.local.

To add lines in named.conf file.

vim /etc/named.conf

The output as bellow

# Forward DNS
zone "huuphan.local" IN {
        allow-update { none; };
        file "/var/named/huuphan.local.zone";
        type master;
};
# Reverse DNS
zone "131.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in {
        allow-update { none; };
        file "/var/named/131.168.192.rev";
        type master;
};

To restart and enable DNS bind

service named restart
chkconfig named on

To test BIND DNS

nslookup command host

nslookup ns1.huuphan.local

The output as bellow

Server:         192.168.131.10
Address:        192.168.131.10#53
Name:   ns1.huuphan.local
Address: 192.168.131.10

nslookup command ip address

nslookup 192.168.131.10

The output as bellow

Server:         192.168.131.10
Address:        192.168.131.10#53
10.131.168.192.in-addr.arpa     name = ns1.huuphan.local.